New 600-space carpark plan for Huddersfield Royal Infirmary

Oct 22 2009 By Neil Atkinson

AN end is in sight for parking misery at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

Health chiefs have submitted plans to Kirklees Council for more than 600 extra spaces close to the hospital.

They want to use part of the sprawling Acre Mills site, across the road from the Infirmary.

It should mean an end to the sight of patients and visitors having to cruise around the hospital car parks looking for a space.

Officials hope the car parks could be in use within months.

The proposals seek to provide temporary car parking arrangements for the Lindley hospital with 608 spaces across two car parking areas.

A spokesman for the agents working for the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust said it was a positive move.

"This will ease the existing situation on the main hospital site where through either the misuse of car spaces or unauthorised parking, operational difficulties regularly arise on site and within the local area.

"Car parking arrangements for existing outpatients and visitors can also be problematic and can lead to delays and congestion on the access routes into the site.